Managing giving funds
How to create and manage the funds members give toward — the always-on Tithes & offerings fund, adding designated funds with their own icon and color, hiding a fund without deleting it, and archiving the ones you no longer need.
A fund is something members can give toward — your general tithes and offerings, a missions fund, a building campaign, a benevolence fund, anything your church collects for. Funds keep giving organized and let members choose where their gift goes. You'll manage them on the Giving page, under Giving funds.
The default fund
Every church starts with one fund already in place: Tithes & offerings. It's your general fund, it's always on, and it's the natural home for everyday giving. Because it's the safety net that guarantees members always have somewhere to give, it's protected — it can never be hidden or archived, and it's always the fallback members can give to. You can rename it if "Tithes & offerings" isn't what your church calls it. You can also add as many other funds alongside it as you like. (No fund is ever deleted outright — funds are archived, so their giving history survives.)
Creating a fund
Click New fund to open the fund editor. Each fund has:
- A name — what members will see, like "Building Fund" or "Missions."
- A short description (optional) — a sentence explaining what it supports.
- An icon and color — a quick visual identity so funds are easy to tell apart at a glance.
Save it, and the fund appears immediately for members to give toward.
Funds themselves don't carry a goal or a deadline — they're the permanent buckets. When you want to raise a specific amount by a specific date, start a campaign on the fund instead. That's what gives your church a thermometer to watch. See Running a giving campaign.
Editing and hiding funds
Open any fund with the pencil icon to change its name, description, or look at any time.
Each fund (except the default) also has a visibility toggle:
- Visible funds appear in the give flow for members to choose.
- Hidden funds stay in your records but don't show to members — useful for a seasonal fund, or one you're preparing ahead of time.
Hiding is not deleting. A hidden fund keeps everything it has collected; you can show it again whenever you're ready. Hiding also isn't pausing: it removes the fund from the giving form for new gifts, but anyone already giving to it on a schedule keeps giving to it. Psalmly warns you before you hide a fund that has scheduled givers.
Archiving a fund
When a fund has truly run its course — a finished campaign, say — you can archive it from the fund editor. Archiving removes it from your active list and from the give flow, but it never erases the giving that happened. If nobody is giving to it on a schedule, an Undo option appears right away so you can bring it back instantly.
If people are — a fund can't be pulled out from under its givers — Psalmly asks you to pick another fund to move their recurring gifts to first. Their amounts, schedules, and payment methods stay the same, each giver is emailed about the move, and that combined move-and-archive can't be undone with a click.
The default Tithes & offerings fund can't be archived — it's always there.
Raising toward something specific
A fund runs indefinitely, which is exactly what you want for tithes, missions, or benevolence. When there's a number and a deadline — a roof by winter, a van by summer — layer a campaign on top of the fund. The drive gets a goal, an end date, and a thermometer your church can watch fill up; the fund underneath keeps collecting exactly as it always did, so nothing about your accounting changes. See Running a giving campaign.
To review the actual money received and break it down gift by gift, use the Recent gifts table and the giving stats on your Giving page. See Tracking gifts, refunds, and reports.